Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-08

ed as renegades throughout >,
They sougth the advice Of NJ. e",e
hoping to receive from him --soAl
fort or encouragement, but he con-, %
none, and would say to those dss O-.a N
Armistead, Garnett, Pickett ana 'i'sass
others whom he loved ~ car =, A0si
no advice, as ! shall not fcbt s'
principle of state rights. I'm.
Union, whole and undivided as4V
and will not belong to countr, =
of principalities. / cannot SIT. va
with you. You must be euidea y sa'aa
own convictions, and hons lda
make no mistake
time was in San Francisco a, "a
occasion to visit the headora-.-
Gen. Albert Sidney johnson. wb 80
command on the Pacific coas.
me that morning and said. with -
his eyes: You are not aware ~.
Sumner was among the passa,cs..
arrived on the steamer this moyr;.@
who came to me channounced. ems
to catch me in reasonable Infants
have not yet seen HIN, but | unss,-.
that he has been sent out 10 relia,.
my command l replied: 'Gene,.i
are morbidly sensitive, think. ana
in your conclusions 4 hope that NJ.
been, but why was the generals III
omitted in the passenger list thar II
sent by overland mail2 If nv susn;.,''
are correct, shall at once resign
God knows what then. had intaes,s Il
remain where I am, and my wife i Il
posed to my giving up a certainty 70, a
uncertainty TWAS soon known thste,.i
Johnson had resigned"
a dramatic scene, one of tbon.,.
similar ones in those days, is set 49,
the reader in she next passage | opo.,,
"a never.to-be-forgotten eyenip, j
the one spent at our home by the oScs|
who were to start upon their oysrr]
trip to the south at II O'Clock that pi,s|
Gen. and Mrs. johnson were of the NJ
x x The most crushed vas mi
Armistead, who, with tears, which ~,
contagious, streaming down his face NJ
hands upon Mr.. Hancocks should.1
while looking him steadily in the al
said; Hancock, goodbye; you can ns1
know what this has cost me, and | bo,]
God will strike me dead if am eve, N
duced to leave my native soil, shoV]
worst come to worse Turning to ma \
placed small satchel in my hand, \
questing that it should not be opened n
cept in the event of his death, in VIII
case the souvenirs il contained, with 1,
exception of a little prayer-book intrs
| ed for me, and which 7 still POSES
should be sent to his family. On The 1,
leaf of this book is the following. Len
A. Armistead. Trust in God and ID
nothing At the same time he preselts
Mr.. Hancock with q new majors union
saying that he might some time need 1
This particular promotion never cans
him, as he jumped the grades from ca
tain 20 brigadier-general. Armisis
died in the way that he prayed fot
as well as my husband, believed that
courted the death that finally cane To b
az Gettysburg, for have often heard
related how brayely he came II the ird
of the brigade, waving his sword a
how he was shot through the body a
fell within our lines, asking to be tab
to Hancock's tent. At the sans Ok
my husband had fallen with wha; '
supposed at the time TO be NOR
wound. Three out of the six from VIZ
we parted on that evening in Los Angs
were killed in front of General Hancoc
troops, and others wounded. The ord
taking us from Los Angeles soon fOlo
ed.
"Nben the ship on which they al
from San Frasciscc cast anchor IN "a
ma bay, Captain Hancock went ass
and got an Eastern paper. which he
aloud in the ships cabin. Among
over-anxious passengers whe could
resist their Impatience but stood bsA
Mr.. Hancock, endeavoring to read o'!'
him, was an elderly lady whom We
not know. Finally she anxiousi!
quired: DO you see anything n
paper, sir, about my sonf Pray tel
and relieve my anxiety In resp0
Mr.. Hancock begged that she would
form him who her son was. She ahs'
ed, Gen. B. f. Butler After search,
announcement came that he was saie'